Mint Tea

Name: Mint Tea
Cuisine: Moroccan
Ingredients: Pour in boiling water; then quickly strain out water to clean tea of dust.; Measure 2–3 teaspoons green tea into pot.; Pour out one glass of tea, then pour it back into the pot.; Add lumps of sugar to the pot.; Wash mint leaves and stuff tightly into pot.; Pour in more boiling water and place teapot in the embers to steep for 1 minute.; Repeat this operation and then serve tea in little glasses, pouring with the pot held high to aerate the hot tea. Deliciously fragrant and – surprisingly enough – not too sweet.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Taste of Morocco

By Robert Carrier

Published 1987

About

The tea ceremony at its simplest as demonstrated at the olive-pressing station of the Domaine Ouled-Aissa near Taroudant.

Method

Measure 2–3 teaspoons green tea into pot.
Pour in boiling water; then quickly strain out water